The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1887-04-21

was NewtOn's Division, and not Woods, Of the
Fourth Corps. that crossed the creek and en-
gagged the enemy. Referring 20 the battle Of
Franklin, he says the credit Of saving the day
belongs 10 Col. Opdycke and his brigade. which
charged and carried the works after a haud-tO-
hand conflict with the rebels, who had broken
our line
G. W. Rehfeld, Sergeant, Co G, 10Th Wis,
Horizon, Wis, says that while in front Of At
lauta with the Seventeenth Corps tobacco users
were in a terrible condition for want Of tobacco.
During a flank movement in the country they
found tobacco growing in a field, and many of
them made charge on the field and chewed
the green leaves.
J. G. Deegan. Co. G.. 1OEh H. Ransom, H.,
writes in behalf Of CarIin's Brigade Of the
Fourteenth Corps which consisted Of the 10th
/ H., I'D and SSth Ind, 18th Ky. and 2I5t Wis
/ He speaks particularly Of the battle Of Peach
Tree Creek recuting the arguments Of various
comrades that no part Of the Fourteenth Corps
was engaged there. He says Carlin's Brigade
/ left many dead on that field.
/ S.W Campbell, First Lieutenant Co. p, Nth
| H. Marissa, H., says that his regiment joined
| the First Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth
\ Corps Just before the opening of the Atlanta
/ campaign, and participated in all the subse
\ queut engagements Of that army On the 22d
\ OF July il lost 1ti men in IL minutes. He SAYS
| the position asst ned to the regiment by Garlic
i ton was correct.
/ Lewis Wilkinson, Co. G., 1O2d H.. Chester,
| Neb.. thinks COmrade Cheney, Co. III, 10Th Mich,
was far out of the way in claiming for the Sec
! Ond Brigade Third Division Twentieth Corps,
| the capture Of the fourgun battery at Resaca.
I lie says the First Brigade was in the advance
/ in the assault and carried the fort handsomely.
/ Samuel Grimshaw, Co. B. sd Ohio thinks
\ that the Third Brigade Second Division. Four
teenth Corps, was the first to cross Peach Tree
Creek and had done some hard fighting to
I L 4 a..
/ tieth Corps were over the stream. He says the
Twentieth Corps did magnificent fighting in
that engagement, bat his regiment had lost 100
| in killed, wounded and missing before the bat
tie reached the Twentieth Corps.
j. Fl. Leeman, Captain, Co. g, 9th Ohio Cav,
| Harland, Kan. calls Comrade Terry. Co. III,
3fth Ky, to order for his account Of the stam-
pede of the 9th and 10th Ohio Cav. in East
/ Tennessee. The writer says the 9Th Ohio Cav
was never in Tennessee during the war, nor
did he or anyone else ever see that regiment
run without contesting every foot Of ground.
A. G. Jacobs, Sergeant Co. b, 9th Ohio Cav,
| Edgar, Neb, denies with some warmth the
| statement of COmrade Terry, Co. TT, 34th KY,
that the 9th and 10th abandoned their camp in
confusion on account Of a night alarm near
MOrristown, East Tenn. He says in the first
place the 9th Ohio Cav. was not composed of
that sort Of " hairpins" and in the next place
il served in the Army of the Potomac from 1861
to 1865 The only engagement in which it ever
participated with the 10th Ohio Cav was a raid
on the suffers "shebang" while in camp at
Cleveland, o.
]. L. King, Co. 7, 10th Ohio Cav, Clymer, N.
Y, adds his testimony to that of several of his
comrades already given, TO the effect that the
account by w. Fl. Terry, 3ith Ky, of the STAN
peding of the 9th and 10th Ohio Cav. near Nor
ristown, East Tenn, is wholly untrue. He
says no such thing ever happened TO the 10th
Ohio Cav. That regiment was never at or near
MOrristOwn during the war.
Z. G.. Gregg, Co. b. 10th Ohio Cav, de-
DOunces as wholly untrue the account given by
Comrade Terry of the stampeding of the 9th
and 10th Ohio Cav. near M0rrstOwn, East Tenn.
He says the 9th and 10th were never together
at any time or place in the field, and that the
10th Ohio was never chased out of its camps at
night or any other time by any rebels.
j. A. Bentley, Co. G., 10th Ohio Cav, Lintner,
ILL.,, denies the account given by comrade Of
the stampedinS of the 9th and 10th Ohio Cav
in East Tennessee in November, 1868.